Let's look at the options shown in step 3:
- Cluster name: This is where you provide an appropriate name for the cluster.
- S3 folder: This is the folder location where the S3 bucket's logs for this cluster will go to.
- Launch mode:
- Cluster: The cluster will continue to run until you terminate it.
- Step execution: This is to add steps after the application is launched.
- Software configuration:
- Vendor: This is Amazon EMI with the open source Hadoop versus MapR's version.
- Release: This is self-evident.
- Applications:
- Core Hadoop: This is focused on the SQL interface.
- HBase: This is focused on partial no-SQL-oriented workloads.
- Presto: This is focused on ad-hoc query processing.
- Spark: This is focused on Spark.
- Hardware configuration ...